An ex-aide to former President
Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has challenged Nigerian security agencies to
eliminate the leader of Boko Haram terrorist sect, Abubakar Shekau, with the
same force the security agencies used to crush a top member of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, one Commander Ikonso.
Police operatives and their
counterparts from the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services killed the
IPOB commander and six other militia members in Imo State.
The IPOB men, who were members of
the secessionist group’s security arm, the Eastern Security Network, were
killed during an early morning raid on their hideout at Awomama village, Oru
East Local Government Area of the state on Saturday.
IPOB has since threatened
“madness”, saying the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, will “pay dearly” for
the killing of its commander. Both IPOB and Boko Haram have been designated as
terrorist groups by the Federal Government.
Reacting, Omokri challenged the
security forces to take out the leaders of other criminal and terrorist
elements in the country the same way Ikonso was ambushed.
He tweeted, “Can’t Nigeria’s Army
also take out leaders of Boko Haram, bandits and killer herdsmen troubling
Nigeria, the same way they took out alleged ESN leader, Ikonso? Or, are they
(security agencies) only strong when it comes to ESN, and weak when it comes to
Boko Haram, bandits and herdsmen?”
Nigeria’s North-East rose to
inglorious fame when Mohammed Yusuf, founder of militant Islamist group Boko
Haram, was killed in 2009. Yusuf’s death birthed a macabre era of unprecedented
uprising; carnage, bombings, kidnappings, amongst other crimes against
humanity, even till date.
Millions of aboriginal Borno,
Yobe and Adamawa residents have also been displaced by the unprintable
activities of the insurgents.
For more than 12 years now, Boko
Haram continues to oppress the people of the North-East, gradually spreading
its demonic tentacles to the North-West. While the Army and the Presidency keep
claiming the group has been ‘technically defeated’ and ‘weakened’, the Shekau’s
bloodthirsty faction continues to strike with daring effrontery and crude
savagery.
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